Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do:

For last few days I was not able to start a .Net Windows Service that I created. It gets installed properly and when start it from Services window, I pops up a message saying:

“ MyTestinSvc service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do, for example, the Performance Logs and Alerts service."

Well, after lot of trial and error I found these are the main reasons for such an error:

1.You need to have a serviceController in you class:

private System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController serviceController1;

2. You need to have a Main method

static void Main()
{
ServiceBase[] ServicesToRun;
ServicesToRun = new ServiceBase[] { new ApproStubSvc1() };
ServiceBase.Run(ServicesToRun);
}

3. You must have InitializeCopmponent methd

private void InitializeComponent()
{
this.serviceController1 = new System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController();
this.serviceController1.ServiceName = "MyTestSvc";
this.CanPauseAndContinue = true;
this.CanShutdown = true;
this.ServiceName = " MyTestSvc ";
}


4. You must call InitializeComponent method in the class constructor

public ApproStubSvc1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}


It should solve the problem.